Quakecon Free Quotes

#1. Outwardly nature is busy and restless, inwardly she is all silence and peace. She has toil on one side and leisure on the other. You see her bondage only when you see her from without, but within her heart is a limitless beauty.

Rabindranath Tagore

#2. I don't live in New York or California. I'm in the grocery store, at the park with my kids, and I'm a normal person. I'm feeding my chickens and agonizing about my next book!

Sarah Dessen

#3. A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

Louis L'Amour

#4. History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

Bret Easton Ellis

#5. While my eyes adjust to the soft glow of the light, I'm suddenly face to face with a man the world dubbed nearly a year ago as the most beautiful man. That headline, however, has been replaced with ones that read along the lines of, Beautiful? Or Beautifully Terrifying?

Ella Frank

#6. Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread, and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.

Shirley Chisholm

#7. I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a reindeer, ships of Swedish maple.

Janet Fitch

#8. Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.

Kurt Angle

#9. Teppic stared into his wine mug. These men are philosophers, he thought. They had told him so. So their brains must be so big that they have room for ideas that no-one else would consider for five seconds.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.

Utah Phillips

#11. The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

Joe Haldeman

#12. It wasn't a bang or a boom. It was the dampest, most corpulent eruption in the history of terminal flatulence.

Terry Pratchett

#13. Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.

Thomas Dekker

#14. The two women looked at me as if I were the Messiah returning with their personal salvations sealed in separate envelopes.

George Alec Effinger